Peggy Policastro speaking to NJTV News about the obesity epidemic in New Jersey.

One quarter of all New Jersey residents are facing a health problem so severe, it’s been deemed an epidemic — obesity. It seems it’s not just the population that’s growing in the Garden State, but our waist size too. A new report, called The State of Obesity issued by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shows some improvement in our national rates, but they continue to climb.